Toaster.



No. 767,368. PATENTED AUG. 9, 1904.

E. J. WHITTLESEY.

TOASTER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 26, 1903.

NO MODEL.

No. 767,368. Patented August 9, 1904-.

UNITED STAT S PATENT OFFICE.

ELISHA J. WVHITTLESEY, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR TO H. S.JOHNSON, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, ROWLAND C. SMITH AND WAL- TER N.CARROLL, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, AND EDITH O. WHIT- TLESEY, OF ST.PAUL, MINNESOTA.

TOASTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 767,368, dated August9, 1904. Application filed October 26, 1903. Serial No. 178,456. (Nmodel.)

T0 all whom it y 0071067: In use the toaster will be positioned cen- Beit known thatI, ELIsHA J. WHITTLESEY, trally over the burner of thestove- The 45 a citizen of the United States, residing at St. flames andheat from the burner will pass Paul, in the county of Ramsey and Stateof through the spaces at the ends and sides of the Minnesota, haveinvented certain new and usespreader 5 directly to the screening 3,against ful Improvements in Toasters, of which the the outer sides ofwhich the slices of bread following is a specification. will be held bythe holders 4:. The flame and 5 My invention relates to improvements inheat will also pass through the central openbread-toasters, its objectbeing to provide a ing 7 assisting in distributing and equalizing IOtoaster designed particularly for use in conthe heat above the spreader.The plate 5 acts nection with gas, gasolene, or oil stoves and as aspreader guiding the heat directly and by means of which the heat willpass directly evenly to the screening 3 to quickly and evenly 55 to thebread in such a way as to evenly and toast the slices of bread. quicklytoast the same. While I have shown the toaster provided 5 To this end myinvention consists in the feawith four sides, I donot limit myself tothat tures of construction and combination hereparticular shape, but mayvary the number inafter particularly described and claimed. of sides andmake other minor changes, as in 60 In the accompanying drawings, formingthe shape of the spreader or bread-holders, part of this specification,Figure 1 is a side without departing from the principles of my elevationof my improved toaster, partly invention.

broken away; and Fig. 2 is a bottom view of Having now described myinvention, what the same. I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters 5 In the drawings, A represents the outer Patent, is shell ofthe toaster, preferably in the shape of l. A toaster, comprising a shellof pyramithe frustum of a pyramid. The four sides of dal shape, havingits sides perforated, a plate the toaster are formed with openings 2,covcentrally spanning the bottom of said shell and ered by screening 3,said screening being of interspaced from the side walls thereof. 7 fineenough mesh to stop the passage of the 2. A toaster, consisting of anopen-bottom flame therethrough, while at the same time alshell ofpyramidal shape, the side walls of said lowingcirculation of air.Secured to the sides shell being perforate, bread-supports secured ofthe toaster below the screening are breadupon the sides of said shell,and a plane-surholders 4 of suitable construction. faced spreadersecured across the bottom of Secured in the open bottom of the toastersaid shell, said spreader being provided with is a strip or plate 5,suitably secured, as by a central opening and being interspaced from 3 5means of rivets 8, to the opposite side walls the sides of said shell.

of the toaster. In order to allow the heat to 3. A toaster, consistingof an open-bottom pass directly to the screening, the strip 5 is shell,the side walls of said shell being formed interspaced at its sides fromthe adjacent side with openings covered by wire screening, walls of thetoaster and has in its ends openbread-supports secured upon the sides ofsaid 4 ings 6 and is also provided with a central openshell below saidscreening, and a spreader seing 7. cured across the bottom of said shelland in- A suitable handle or ring 9 is secured at the terspaced from theside Walls of said shell. 5 top of the toaster. 4. A toaster, consistingof an open-bottom shell, the side walls of said shell being pro- Intestimony whereof I affix my signature in vided with openings eovered byscreening presence of two Witnesses.

bread-supports secured upon the sides ot said ELISHA J VHITTLESEY. shellbelow said screening, and a spreader secured across the bottom of saidshell in such \Vitnesses:

manner as to direct heat from below directly H. S. JOHNSON,

to said screening. EMILY F. OTIS.

